Studying in Hawaii aka Visiting on the Cheap

With summer just around the corner, I thought I would switch gears for a moment to touch on the topic of How I spent a summer in college in Hawaii and you can too, regardless of age or educational pursuits. I never studied abroad in college. While I wish I had, as an Interior Design […]

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Holiday Traditions? Bourbon Please.

I love the holidays. I love overbearing family, tacky decorations, Christmas music, and baking. Someone recently asked about my family’s traditions. And truth be told, they’re not that much different from everyone else’s. However, my parents moved to rural Kentucky and the Bourbon Capital of the World four years ago, and since then we’ve adapted […]

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Montage Monday: Smallest Post Office in the USA

Welcome to Ochopee Post Office, the smallest post office in the United States. Located in Everglades National Park in southern Florida, it is literally just a little stand and serves three counties in the area.

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RTW Travel: The Last Stop (Part Deux)

Note: This is a follow-up to my first post on my trip to Portland. To read the first post, click here! Oh how I love a good surprise! And, you may have read that I made a stopover in Portland on my way home last week to surprise my best friend. It was fantastic! I […]

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Gobble Gobble… Home for Thanksgiving

I went around the world inĀ  8-1/2 months. And the best part? I lived to tell about it AND I made it home in time for Thanksgiving. Although I don’t have all of my family with me this Thanksgiving, it doesn’t mean I’m any less excited to eat delicious food. And, scarily enough, since my […]

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RTW Travel: The Last Stop

I’ve just achieved one of my biggest accomplishments. Trekking volcanoes, running three marathons, and making it through grueling design school were not exactly a piece of cake; but this, this has been a tough one! I have managed to keep a big secret from my best friend, and as this post is going live on […]

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